Quality Assurance Test Suite Integration

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Hi DevNetters -
I'm embarkiing on a project to improve the automated QA checking process that we currently have integrated with the TeamSite workflow that's used with publishing content to our intranet. This post is a request for any ideas you all might have to make this work.

Currently, our workflow calls out to a couple of routines that check the length and structure of filenames - and it errors are found, the job task is rejected and sent backwards for fixing and a retry. We have a much longer set of QA checks that we'd like to implement now.

The set of checks we'd like to perform involve page size checking, html and css validation, amongst several others. In general, here's how we'd like to have it work:
- we'd like to have the QA validator hosted externally to TeamSite, so that it can be invoked independently of TeamSite by feeding it a URL, and TeamSite workflow would also be able to invoke it.
- it should return a prioritized report of warnings and errors. When invoked outside of TeamSite, the user can use the report to fix problems before starting up any TeamSite workflows, and when invoked from workflow, the report can be analyzed to determine whether to pass or reject the update.

I'm doing some industry research to see if there are packages available (preferred) or whether we're looking to build our own. The W3C validators look like a possible starting point for us.

We like our solution to run on Solaris, or at least be a server (not client) process.

If you have any suggestions about, or experiences with, this type of project, please send them my way.

Thanks!
Wally Box
Nike, Inc.

B80116

Watchfire's WebXM sounds sort of like what you are describing, and it can be integrated with TeamSite workflow. We've been talking about trying it out, but have not yet done so. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.watchfire.com/products/webxm/default.aspx

http://www.watchfire.com/resources/webxm-interwoven.pdf